Regular folks pitched in to fund the cause. The City and Coastal Commission use your tax money. The people's only recourse is the court. FoCP has no paid employees. Your donation goes solely for lawsuit costs and are tax deductable. FoCP is a 501(c)(3) federal non-profit. Your information will not be shared.

Children's Pool was the best protected beach in California after we sued the City of San Diego and the California Coastal Commission and won. We gave them the reasons we would win. Click to see the evidence yourself . But we have to go to the State Supreme Court now.Click to see the judgement against the City refuting City and the Coastal Commision. To get Coastal Commission help, San Diego escalated to the State level and had agreed to pay their legal expenses too. Public access to every California beach seals or sea lions might spread to is now at stake. We have to take opposing legal systems to the State Supreme Court. Our request for review is here.

The appeal judges did not review the first decision, they invented new law. Their reversal is found here. It might feel good to deny a federal agency jurisdiction, but it then makes California towns assume responsibility and costs of NOAA's animal overpopulation experiments.
The Coastal Commission is making a power grab, on taxpayer money. The Commission, created to safeguard public shore access, claims the right to deny access to beaches with seals or sea lions on them, when the Feds are reluctant. The CCC claims to impunity are found here. The City's ascendency claims over federal law are found here.

City officials stole the Pool from the Children of San Diego for profit and convenience. The City deliberately skuttled alternate proposals that would allow shared use to work such as the(Lifeguard Plan).The easy way out was banning children from their own beach. NOAA/NMFS warned San Diego in January 2014 (See Letter) that taking the Marine Mammal Protection Act into its own hands was a violation of federal law. The City figured correctly NOAA would take no action. But WE did.

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DISCLAIMER: Our lawsuit cannot force seal or sea lion removal now. Only force the City to find a better way to manage shared use within the law. The seals had prospered for over 20 years sharing habitat with people. If the City still insists shared use is impractical, it can allow restoration of Children's Pool as orignally entrusted, not a giant sand box. OR, San Diego could demand NOAA repatriate the seals to the wild, for their safety, per federal recommendations and procedures. San Diego had no right to create a pen for them on State trusted land to exploit them for a tourist attraction.